Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The President sent to Congress, on Tuesday, a message calling attention to the condition of affairs existing in Utah, owing to the Governor of that Territory vetoing the last appropriation bill, which appropriated money for the support of schools, courts, charitable institutions, etc., referring to the fact that under existing law the Legislature cannot convene for nearly two years, and recommending the speedy enactment of such legislation as will authorize the assembling of the Legislature at an early day. Also a message recommending "Congress to make an appropriation to defray the expenses of the inauguration of the Bartholdi statue.

It is announced with positiveness that the marriage of President Cleveland and Miss Folsom will lake place at Buffalo on the 12th ofJune A Washington dispatch says: “Secretary Lamar says that since the report went forth that Commissioner Sparks intended resigning he has received hundreds of letters from the Northwest, in which the writers congratulated both themselves and the Government upon Gen. Sparks’ speedy retirement. It is Secre tarvLamafrbblt6fttottlbe-gi^ ty of these letters were written by land sharks. He says that no honest, bona-fide settler has anything to fear from Commissioner Sparks, and that he not only has not requested the Commissioner's resignation, but thatM wpuld.yjgprously protest if Gen,Sparks should intimate an intention to resign.” The Senate Committee on Territories has ordered a favorable report on the Vest bill fixing .the boundaries of Yellowstone Park, providing that it shall hereafter be under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, and authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make and publish rules and regulations for the care of the .park 11—Ll_ j The total values of the exports of beef and pork products during the six months ended April 30, 1886, were $37,839,191, against $47,740,183 for the same time in 1885; and the values of the exports of dairy products for the six months ended April 30. 1886, were $10,281,185. as compared with $14,686,019 during the same time in 1885. .D. T. Patterson, a son-in-law of the late President Johnson, has been appointed Postmaster at Home, Tennessee, at $240 per year.